Individual Assignment #4: Chapters 1-6 Due Wednesday, November 3
Put a new line between assignments #3 and #4.
Put your answer ABOVE the previous assignment.
Copy this assignment to your page.
Add the date above this assignment.
Start a plot line. Identify the setting first.
Add two or three key events from each chapter that we have read - chapters 1-10 – reflecting on the rising action.
Identify each chapter and put the two or three events as complete sentences under the chapter number.
For example:
Setting
Time and Place
Chapter 1
· The characters arrive at Sticklehaven off the coast of Devon, intent on traveling to Indian Island, which has been in the news lately because it is surrounded by mystery.
· The main characters wonder about the people they meet, and are excited at the chance to spend a week at this luxurious island.
Chapter 2
Two or three bulleted sentences explaining your events.
Response:
Setting
Place: Indian Island, a private island off the coast of Devon. Mainly located in England.
Time: 1930's, old-times.
Chapter 1
10 people, all strangers to each other, are invited to stay on Indian Island; they have all received invitations from mainly the same source - "U.N. Owen."
Even though all of their invitations are from "U.N Owen", each invitation invites the guest to Indian Island for a different purpose.
Chapter 2
The 10 guests, now all on the island, introduce themselves to one another and start to get acquainted.
As Vera Claythorne settles in her room, she reads a poem that hangs above her fireplace that we later learn is in every guest's room.
Chapter 3
All ten guests are headed off to dinner.
During this dinner, a speaker overhead starts playing a cassette tape. The cassette tape is a recording of a voice, accusing each guest of murder.
All ten people now don't know what to think of each other, knowing that they all committed crimes, let alone murders.
Chapter 4
Each guest, except for Emily Brent, now starts to tell the story of their crime.
At the very end of the chapter, Anthony Marston takes a sip of his drink and starts to choke. "His face contorted, turned purple. He gasped for breath- then slid down off his chair, the glass falling from his hand (pg 67)."
Chapter 5
The nine guests left try to figure out what the cause of Anthony's death was. At first, they think he was killing himself by poisoning his drink, but later in the book we'll learn that it was caused by something else.
The guests try to comfort themselves to sleep, but then we are taken to Vera Claythorne's point of view as she figures out that the first line of the Indian poem had come true that night... "Ten little Indian boys went out to dine, one choked his little self and then there were nine."
Mr. Rogers finds nine Indian figurines on the dining room table as apposed to the ten that were there before Marston's death.
Chapter 6
We start off Chapter 6 in a dream of Doctor Armstrong's. He is awakened by Mr. Rogers who claims his wife won't wake up.
Meanwhile, the others are waiting for the boat to arrive with their supplies, but it never does.
After concluding that Mrs. Rogers is in fact dead, Mr. Rogers is appalled to find only eight Indian figures now on the table.
Nicely done, Grace. You have a good start on your plot line. Mrs. M
Chapter 7
We are taken to each guest's point of view to find what they are doing. Do you mean that the reader reflects on each character or that the characters take a minute to access the situation?
Emily Brent and Vera Claythorne are walking up to the summit to look for the boat again as Emily Brent tells Vera Claythorne about Beatrice Taylor, the girl that Emily Brent led to her death.
Doctor Armstrong and Philip Lombard realize that the next line of the Indian poem has come true after Mrs. Rogers' death... "Nine little Indian boys sat up very late, one overslept himself and then there were eight."
Chapter 8
Vera Claythorne visits General Macarthur, who tells her he is anticipating his death and is accepting of that; this scares Vera.
General Macarthur tells Vera more about his wife Leslie, and that he sent Richmond, Leslie's lover, to his death in the war.
Blore, Armstrong, and Lombard realize that only people on the island are the eight guests remaining, which means the murderer must be one of them.
Chapter 9
The remaining guests conclude that Mr. Owen has to be one of them.
Mr. Rogers calls the guests to lunch, and when General Macarthur does not come, Doctor Armstrong offers to go retrieve him.
Doctor Armstrong comes back, alarmed, claiming that General Macarthur has died due to someone clubbing him with a life-preserver.
Of course to follow, there are now seven Indian figurines on the table. "Eight little Indian boys travelling in Devon, one said he'd stay there and then there were seven."
Chapter 10
Philip Lombard claims Vera Claythorne to be a very level-headed and sane woman.
As everyone heads off to bed, Mr. Rogers locks the dining room (which is where the Indian figurines are) and hopes for the best.
Chapter 11
Philip Lombard wakes himself and a few others up when they discover that Rogers is missing.
The remaining six, to follow the pattern, now only find six Indian figures on the dining room table.
They then found Rogers had been chopping sticks in preparation for lighting the kitchen fire. With a small chopper still in his hand, Rogers was killed with a bigger chopper forced to the back of Rogers' head. This, of course, follows the poem. "Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks, one chopped himself in halves and then there were six."
Chapter 12
After finishing breakfast, the six guests still alive start to clean up after themselves. However, Emily Brent she would like a moment alone in the dining room, so they leave her.
She is then stung by bumblebee on the side of her neck, which is really a Cyanide, which kills her. "Six little Indian boys playing with a hive, a bumblebee stung one and then there were five."
Chapter 13
Three words keep going through the remaining five guests' minds... "One of us."
At the end of the chapter, Blore, Armstrong, Claythorne, and Lombard find that Judge Wargrave has been shot. He is found with Emily Brent's missing grey wool and the scarlet curtain that was missing from the bathroom.
Chapter 14
Philip Lombard finds his missing revolver in a table drawer in his room.
Vera notices that a big black hook is hanging from her ceiling.
Blore goes on a search for Armstrong, but he, Vera, and Philip discover that he is missing. They then see only three Indian figures on the table.
Chapter 15
The next day, Blore, Vera, and Lombard plan to send S.O.S. signals, but end up arguing about Armstrong's disappearance instead. Lombard and Vera think he's faking his death, while Blore is confident that he has died.
Later, they congregate on the cliffs. Blore decides to go back into the house alone to eat some lunch, and when he never returns, Lombard and Vera find that he has been crushed by a great white block of marble.
Lombard and Vera, now fearing for their lives, go out to the rocks intending to bathe, but find that Armstrong really has died - he was wedged between two rocks.
Chapter 16
When not looking, Vera snatches the revolver from Philip Lombard. Sneakily, she shots him through the heart... bringing relief over Vera.
Vera then starts to go crazy and assumes that the last line of the Indian poem is "One little Indian boy left all alone, he got married and then there were none." Because of this, Vera thinks Hugo, her lover, is upstairs in her bedroom.
She goes up there to meet Hugo but instead sees the big hook with a rope attached in the middle of the room. She then remembers the poem actually reads, "One little Indian boy left all alone, he went and hanged himself and then there were none."
Now deranged, Vera thinks that hanging herself is what Hugo wanted, so that is just what she does.
EPILOGUE
We learn that "U.N. Owen" is actually a man named Isaac Morris. He died shortly after inviting the guests.
Detectives try and try to understand how these deaths could have occured without someone else on the island, and they realize that there was no possible way. The murderer had to be one of the ten.
MANUSCRIPT
The killer, after many years of being a judge, had the urge to kill. He wanted to commit a "fantastical crime."
We learn that Armstrong was in on the murder, but the "red herring" in the sixth line of the poem shows that the killer he was in ca-hoots with really was two-faced.
Finally, after thoroughly explaining each murder, we realize that Lawrence Wargrave was responsible for each death. I think the very last paragraph is the climax - where Wargrave says, "My hand, protected with a handkerchief, will press the trigger. My hand will fall to my side, the revolver, pulled by the elastic will recoil to the door, jarred by the door-handle it will detach itself from the elastic and fall. The elsatic, released, will hang down innocently from the eyeglasses on which my body is lying. A handkerchief lying on the floor will cause no comment whatever... And they then will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island."
*I have made a general observation that every time a guest is alone is the time when he or she is killed. Also, Vera Claythorne is very aware of the pattern that the Indian poem is making. True...which contributes to her illogical actions; her instability causes her to take her own life.
I would say that the very last paragraph along with the rest of the manuscript wraps up all the unanswered questions, so that is the falling action leading to the resolution. The point where the book takes a definite turn is when Wargrave gets shot. Up until that time, the characters look to Wargrave for some sense of leadership and comfort. Now that last shred of logic is gone; the guests have no semblance of civilization, there is a lack of trust, and they fear for their lives.
Overall, you have provided very thorough and thoughtful responses to all of the assignments. Mrs. M
October 20, 2010 Assignment #3
Assignment:
Put a new line between assignments #2 and #3.
Copy the assignment to your page. (the red print)
Add the date at the top of your page.
Add your answers to the TOP of your page under the date.
Choose five characters from the story,
Write two sentences telling what you know about him or her.
BOLD the character's name and write your sentences about that character right underneath his or her name.
Example:
· Vera Claythorne
Sentence #1 about Vera Claythorne
Sentence #2 about Vera Claythorne
Response:
Justice Lawrence Wargrave**
1. Justice Wargrave is a retired judge who is used to taking control in argumentive situations.
2. He also was accused guilty of the murder of Edward Seton on June 10th, 1930.
Vera Claythrone
1. Vera Claythrone, as stated in the beginning of the book, travels third-class, which suggests she's poor.
2. For her previous job, she served as a gym teacher, but has come to Indian Island with the hope of being a secretary.
U.N. Owen
1. We are not quite sure who this person is, but we are led to believe that he or she has invited the ten guests to the island.
2. This person also is very mysterious, as we do not know if he or she has invited the guests for a murderous reason.
Philip Lombard
1. Captain Lombard is a rather young, mischievous man.
2. He is said to be responsible for the deaths of 21 natives by leaving them to starve to save himself.
Emily Brent
1. I find Emily Brent to be a very mysterious character; the author mentions less about her than any other character.
2. The main point we need to be aware of is that she was accused to have killed Beatrice Taylor.
Good observation regarding the lack of information of Emily Brent; that casts suspicion on her right away. Mrs. M
October 20, 2010 Assignment #2
Assignment:
Put a line above Assignment #1; assignment #2 will go above assignment #1.
Read chapter two.
Choose one of the following: suspense or foreshadowing.
With your small group, find four examples of suspense OR foreshadowing in chapter two.
Each member of your group must write on his or her WIKI page the exact wording from the book - that means type the sentences exactly as they are written.
Then, in a well-written paragraph, explain why these sentences clearly show either suspense or foreshadowing.
Read chapter three for Monday, October 25.
Response: "Never thought I'd be doing this sort of a job in a house here. Good thing, perhaps, that one can't foresee the future..." (pg 36) This might foreshadow Mr. Blore (the speaker in this quote) doing a job that he doesn't like. We don't exactly know what his job is yet, but we do know that it is unpleasant and he didn't expect to be doing it. The first thing that comes to mind is that he might possibly have something to do with the killings on the island. He might even follow the Indian poem, making sure every guest is killed or disappears.
"He (Phillip Lombard) thought to himself: 'He'll ask me now if I was old enough to be in the War. These old boys always do.' But General Macarthur did not mention the War." (pg 22) - - This makes me wonder if General Macarthur already knows that Lombard wasn't in the war. Maybe he's been aware of Lombard's past?
"This Mr. Owen must be a very different sort of gentleman. Funny it was, thought Fred, that he'd never yet set eyes on Owen - or his Missus either." (pg 25) If Fred Narracott, the man thinking in this quote, did not know who Mr. Owen was, how could he be confident in his business as the boat owner? Surely, he would have to have met, or even have heard of, Mr. Owen before. This makes me suspicious of what Fred does (and doesn't) know.
"'There's a wasp crawling up your arm. No - keep quite still.' He made a convincing pounce. 'There. It's gone...'" (pg 20) When Phillip Lombard got the wasp off of Vera's Claythrone's arm, I made a connection between that and the Indian poem on page 31. It says, "Six little Indian boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five..." This also makes me suspicous about the poem in general - there are ten guests and ten Indians. Maybe this poem explains how each guest is killed.
"There was something sinister about it." (pg 22) This could foreshadow, about the house on Indian Island, something really bad happening at the house or that happened in the house before. The former owner of the house, the American millionaire, could have been killed by Mr. Owen. The event that could happen there might be the killing of all the guests.
I like the quotes and the explanations that your group chose. Mrs. M
October 19, 2010 Assignment #1
Assignment: Add a new page and name it LAST NAME + AND THEN THERE WERE NONE. Create a link from your page to the student pages. On your new page, answer the two questions below in one solid paragraph. In the second paragraph, make one prediction - something that you think might happen or something that you might expect about a character in the story.
how does a mystery novel differ from a narrative?
how might the title be a clue to the story?
Response: A mystery novel differs from a narrative in many ways. Mystery novels leave you filled with suspense and there are surprises around every corner. Narratives are from one person's point of view (the narrator) and can be any kind of story, such as romance, biographies, and historical fiction, whereas mystery novels are solely about the mystery, surprise, and suspense. Also, titles of mystery stories can help one decipher the problem in the story. "And Then There Were None" leads us to believe that many people die in this story, and being a mystery, their deaths were probably due to murder.
In the story, there are many, many characters, yet I believe a few in particular are rather suspicious. Vera Claythrone, a relatively poor, middle-aged woman, committed a crime but was acquitted (actually)?? guilty. We are not yet aware of what this crime is; it could be anything. Because the author mentioned Vera's acquitted crime, I have a suspicion that her crime might have something to do with murder. My guess is that in the story, her past will come back to haunt her somehow.
Good explanation...not sure if you meant 'acquitted guilty' or 'actually guilty' when talking about Vera. She was found not guilty of drowning Cyril because she said that it was an accident, and she couldn't get to him in time. So she was acquitted - or found innocent. She knew she was guilty which is why it bothers her. She had ulterior motives which may not have been clearly explained; they had something to do with Hugo.
Also, this page should be linked to the 'here' page. Please fix that.
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November 1, 2010 Assignment #4
Assignment:
Individual Assignment #4: Chapters 1-6 Due Wednesday, November 3
Put a new line between assignments #3 and #4.
Put your answer ABOVE the previous assignment.
Copy this assignment to your page.
Add the date above this assignment.
Start a plot line. Identify the setting first.
Add two or three key events from each chapter that we have read - chapters 1-10 – reflecting on the rising action.
Identify each chapter and put the two or three events as complete sentences under the chapter number.
For example:
Setting
Time and Place
Chapter 1
· The characters arrive at Sticklehaven off the coast of Devon, intent on traveling to Indian Island, which has been in the news lately because it is surrounded by mystery.
· The main characters wonder about the people they meet, and are excited at the chance to spend a week at this luxurious island.
Chapter 2
Two or three bulleted sentences explaining your events.
Response:
Setting
Place: Indian Island, a private island off the coast of Devon. Mainly located in England.
Time: 1930's, old-times.
Chapter 1
10 people, all strangers to each other, are invited to stay on Indian Island; they have all received invitations from mainly the same source - "U.N. Owen."
Even though all of their invitations are from "U.N Owen", each invitation invites the guest to Indian Island for a different purpose.
Chapter 2
The 10 guests, now all on the island, introduce themselves to one another and start to get acquainted.
As Vera Claythorne settles in her room, she reads a poem that hangs above her fireplace that we later learn is in every guest's room.
Chapter 3
All ten guests are headed off to dinner.
During this dinner, a speaker overhead starts playing a cassette tape. The cassette tape is a recording of a voice, accusing each guest of murder.
All ten people now don't know what to think of each other, knowing that they all committed crimes, let alone murders.
Chapter 4
Each guest, except for Emily Brent, now starts to tell the story of their crime.
At the very end of the chapter, Anthony Marston takes a sip of his drink and starts to choke. "His face contorted, turned purple. He gasped for breath- then slid down off his chair, the glass falling from his hand (pg 67)."
Chapter 5
The nine guests left try to figure out what the cause of Anthony's death was. At first, they think he was killing himself by poisoning his drink, but later in the book we'll learn that it was caused by something else.
The guests try to comfort themselves to sleep, but then we are taken to Vera Claythorne's point of view as she figures out that the first line of the Indian poem had come true that night... "Ten little Indian boys went out to dine, one choked his little self and then there were nine."
Mr. Rogers finds nine Indian figurines on the dining room table as apposed to the ten that were there before Marston's death.
Chapter 6
We start off Chapter 6 in a dream of Doctor Armstrong's. He is awakened by Mr. Rogers who claims his wife won't wake up.
Meanwhile, the others are waiting for the boat to arrive with their supplies, but it never does.
After concluding that Mrs. Rogers is in fact dead, Mr. Rogers is appalled to find only eight Indian figures now on the table.
Nicely done, Grace. You have a good start on your plot line.
Mrs. M
Chapter 7
We are taken to each guest's point of view to find what they are doing. Do you mean that the reader reflects on each character or that the characters take a minute to access the situation?
Emily Brent and Vera Claythorne are walking up to the summit to look for the boat again as Emily Brent tells Vera Claythorne about Beatrice Taylor, the girl that Emily Brent led to her death.
Doctor Armstrong and Philip Lombard realize that the next line of the Indian poem has come true after Mrs. Rogers' death... "Nine little Indian boys sat up very late, one overslept himself and then there were eight."
Chapter 8
Vera Claythorne visits General Macarthur, who tells her he is anticipating his death and is accepting of that; this scares Vera.
General Macarthur tells Vera more about his wife Leslie, and that he sent Richmond, Leslie's lover, to his death in the war.
Blore, Armstrong, and Lombard realize that only people on the island are the eight guests remaining, which means the murderer must be one of them.
Chapter 9
Mr. Rogers calls the guests to lunch, and when General Macarthur does not come, Doctor Armstrong offers to go retrieve him.
Doctor Armstrong comes back, alarmed, claiming that General Macarthur has died due to someone clubbing him with a life-preserver.
Of course to follow, there are now seven Indian figurines on the table. "Eight little Indian boys travelling in Devon, one said he'd stay there and then there were seven."
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
EPILOGUE
MANUSCRIPT
*I have made a general observation that every time a guest is alone is the time when he or she is killed. Also, Vera Claythorne is very aware of the pattern that the Indian poem is making. True...which contributes to her illogical actions; her instability causes her to take her own life.
I would say that the very last paragraph along with the rest of the manuscript wraps up all the unanswered questions, so that is the falling action leading to the resolution. The point where the book takes a definite turn is when Wargrave gets shot. Up until that time, the characters look to Wargrave for some sense of leadership and comfort. Now that last shred of logic is gone; the guests have no semblance of civilization, there is a lack of trust, and they fear for their lives.
Overall, you have provided very thorough and thoughtful responses to all of the assignments.
Mrs. M
October 20, 2010 Assignment #3
Assignment:
Put a new line between assignments #2 and #3.
Copy the assignment to your page. (the red print)
Add the date at the top of your page.
Add your answers to the TOP of your page under the date.
Choose five characters from the story,
Write two sentences telling what you know about him or her.
BOLD the character's name and write your sentences about that character right underneath his or her name.
Example:
· Vera Claythorne
Sentence #1 about Vera Claythorne
Sentence #2 about Vera Claythorne
Response:
Justice Lawrence Wargrave**
1. Justice Wargrave is a retired judge who is used to taking control in argumentive situations.
2. He also was accused guilty of the murder of Edward Seton on June 10th, 1930.
Vera Claythrone
1. Vera Claythrone, as stated in the beginning of the book, travels third-class, which suggests she's poor.
2. For her previous job, she served as a gym teacher, but has come to Indian Island with the hope of being a secretary.
U.N. Owen
1. We are not quite sure who this person is, but we are led to believe that he or she has invited the ten guests to the island.
2. This person also is very mysterious, as we do not know if he or she has invited the guests for a murderous reason.
Philip Lombard
1. Captain Lombard is a rather young, mischievous man.
2. He is said to be responsible for the deaths of 21 natives by leaving them to starve to save himself.
Emily Brent
1. I find Emily Brent to be a very mysterious character; the author mentions less about her than any other character.
2. The main point we need to be aware of is that she was accused to have killed Beatrice Taylor.
Good observation regarding the lack of information of Emily Brent; that casts suspicion on her right away.
Mrs. M
October 20, 2010 Assignment #2
Assignment:
Put a line above Assignment #1; assignment #2 will go above assignment #1.
Read chapter two.
Choose one of the following: suspense or foreshadowing.
With your small group, find four examples of suspense OR foreshadowing in chapter two.
Each member of your group must write on his or her WIKI page the exact wording from the book - that means type the sentences exactly as they are written.
Then, in a well-written paragraph, explain why these sentences clearly show either suspense or foreshadowing.
Read chapter three for Monday, October 25.
Response: "Never thought I'd be doing this sort of a job in a house here. Good thing, perhaps, that one can't foresee the future..." (pg 36) This might foreshadow Mr. Blore (the speaker in this quote) doing a job that he doesn't like. We don't exactly know what his job is yet, but we do know that it is unpleasant and he didn't expect to be doing it. The first thing that comes to mind is that he might possibly have something to do with the killings on the island. He might even follow the Indian poem, making sure every guest is killed or disappears.
"He (Phillip Lombard) thought to himself: 'He'll ask me now if I was old enough to be in the War. These old boys always do.' But General Macarthur did not mention the War." (pg 22) - - This makes me wonder if General Macarthur already knows that Lombard wasn't in the war. Maybe he's been aware of Lombard's past?
"This Mr. Owen must be a very different sort of gentleman. Funny it was, thought Fred, that he'd never yet set eyes on Owen - or his Missus either." (pg 25) If Fred Narracott, the man thinking in this quote, did not know who Mr. Owen was, how could he be confident in his business as the boat owner? Surely, he would have to have met, or even have heard of, Mr. Owen before. This makes me suspicious of what Fred does (and doesn't) know.
"'There's a wasp crawling up your arm. No - keep quite still.' He made a convincing pounce. 'There. It's gone...'" (pg 20) When Phillip Lombard got the wasp off of Vera's Claythrone's arm, I made a connection between that and the Indian poem on page 31. It says, "Six little Indian boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five..." This also makes me suspicous about the poem in general - there are ten guests and ten Indians. Maybe this poem explains how each guest is killed.
"There was something sinister about it." (pg 22) This could foreshadow, about the house on Indian Island, something really bad happening at the house or that happened in the house before. The former owner of the house, the American millionaire, could have been killed by Mr. Owen. The event that could happen there might be the killing of all the guests.
I like the quotes and the explanations that your group chose.
Mrs. M
October 19, 2010 Assignment #1
Assignment: Add a new page and name it LAST NAME + AND THEN THERE WERE NONE. Create a link from your page to the student pages. On your new page, answer the two questions below in one solid paragraph. In the second paragraph, make one prediction - something that you think might happen or something that you might expect about a character in the story.
how does a mystery novel differ from a narrative?
how might the title be a clue to the story?
Response: A mystery novel differs from a narrative in many ways. Mystery novels leave you filled with suspense and there are surprises around every corner. Narratives are from one person's point of view (the narrator) and can be any kind of story, such as romance, biographies, and historical fiction, whereas mystery novels are solely about the mystery, surprise, and suspense. Also, titles of mystery stories can help one decipher the problem in the story. "And Then There Were None" leads us to believe that many people die in this story, and being a mystery, their deaths were probably due to murder.
In the story, there are many, many characters, yet I believe a few in particular are rather suspicious. Vera Claythrone, a relatively poor, middle-aged woman, committed a crime but was acquitted (actually)?? guilty. We are not yet aware of what this crime is; it could be anything. Because the author mentioned Vera's acquitted crime, I have a suspicion that her crime might have something to do with murder. My guess is that in the story, her past will come back to haunt her somehow.
Good explanation...not sure if you meant 'acquitted guilty' or 'actually guilty' when talking about Vera. She was found not guilty of drowning Cyril because she said that it was an accident, and she couldn't get to him in time. So she was acquitted - or found innocent. She knew she was guilty which is why it bothers her. She had ulterior motives which may not have been clearly explained; they had something to do with Hugo.
Also, this page should be linked to the 'here' page. Please fix that.
Mrs. M